Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
South Charleston is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Our records document automated license plate reader use in South Charleston, West Virginia recorded for West Virginia State Police, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 3 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 3 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
Agency
West Virginia State Police
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Statewide
County
Kanawha County
State
West Virginia (WV)
Vendor
Elsag
The West Virginia State Police began using automated license plate readers in 2011. The statewide program involves dozens of local agencies throughout the state.
Sources · record AOS007620
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
3 mapped camera points inside the South Charleston boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Other West Virginia communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
Huntington's council approved a Flock camera purchase over objections raised by residents at the meeting, West Virginia Watch reported.
West Virginia WatchJul 14, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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